Miss Watson among 32 students nationwide to participate in Gillette Co. Economics for Leaders program

Published: June 12, 2005 8:00PM

Shenandoah High School Junior Sandy Watson was recently selected to participate in the Gillette Co. Economics for Leaders program being conducted at the College of Wooster in Wooster, June 19-26.
Watson is one of 32 students in the United States who have been accepted into the program, which is sponsored by the Foundation for Teaching Economics, a Davis, Calif., nonprofit foundation, and funded by the Gillette Co. All students have been selected for demonstrating leadership potential.
The week-long course combines leadership training and economics. During the week, students learn an economic way of thinking about human behavior and experience the interaction of different leadership styles within a group.
As a result, students develop a clearer insight into how the world works and knowledge that is especially helpful to those aspiring to leadership positions.
Economic education for these future leaders is especially important because the costs of bad or misdirected public policies can be enormous.
Students attending the GEFL programs in prior years have called it the experience of a lifetime.